Pop Quiz: How many trees are there in the world?
A) 1 billion
B) 500 million
C) 500 billion
D) 3 trillion
E) 50 billion
TheZoo
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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By the bye, when I go directly to tpzoo.wordpress.com, this entry is below both Monday’s, and “Our Ebb flies off … “
Thanks, Gary. Fixed it. 🙂
Happened to one of my posts the time I forgot to make it sticky.
Hey! I got it right, 3 trillionionish…
Unless, of course, we somehow elect a bozoid repuglycan president this year, and then that number will quickly be reduced, in the name of progress and profit.
I was surprised the number was so small — figured there must be a trillion in Colorado alone! Actually, 3 trillion really is smaller than I would have guessed, given how widespread across the globe are forests in one form or another.
Trillion is pretty damned big, actually. A simple example I’ve always appreciated:
One million seconds is a little over 11 1/5 days.
One billion seconds is 31 years, and well into August.
A TRILLION seconds is a thousand times that, which puts you painting animals in the caves at Lescaux.
Good grief. Where does it end, the scourge of official religious advocacy? What’s the word for Christer Jihad?
Judge Orders State To Give Millions In Subsidies To Creationist Amusement Park
It seems to me that poor decision can and should be appealed. If giving them $18 million in taxpayer money doesn’t violate the First Amendment, then it has no meaning at all.
Exactly. And that’s precisely what the Christers want — a dead first amendment. This here’s a Christian country, after. It says so in the Constitution! I forget where.
I’m still trying, in vain, to figure out why churches aren’t subject to taxation. If we started taxing churches? Virtually all of them would just go away to look for a more profitable scam.
AyMen
What’s the word for Christer Jihad?
I think that “Crusade” is the favorite handle though “inquisition” might be more accurate.
How about a combo, something like “Inquisitor-deSade”
That could work but much of our target, right-wing, audience wouldn’t realize the significance of “deSade”. How about “Nazi”? Everyone has heard the term and even those who act and talk like Nazis realize that it’s a bad thing; though they don’t recognize it in themselves.
Problem with that is, they think Nazis were/are socialists, like Bernie. Communists, i.o.w.
What we need is universal home schooling!!!
True. They think that Nazis were/are left-wing just like Stalin. But? They do know that “Nazi” is a scary word.
I still remember the pic of the wingnut and his poster that said Obama was a “Marksist-Facist.” Perfect ‘summary’ of the right wing’s knowledge and mental prowess.
Donald Trump and a lack of self-awareness – from the files of #ohtheirony
Gosh, now Abe Vigoda has left us. To be honest though, I did not know he was still around – and yes, I new of the false reports years ago.
Malheur news: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/two-people-have-been-shot-and-ammon-bundy-is-in-custody-report/
Ammon Bundy in custody.
‘Bout effing time. Not the shooting part but the arrested part.
Ok someone got themselves shot….. and just like a Jihadi, this Yeehawdi is a ‘martyr’ – religious fanatics….
But. But. But Freedumb!